Setting Captives Free: Models for Individual, Marital and Group Counselling (Handbooks of Pastoral Care) - Softcover

Stevens, Bruce A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0551029129 ISBN 13: 9780551029125

Publisher: Zondervan, 1994

Synopsis

This guide is intended for all who are engaged in the christian pastoral ministry - clergy, counsellors and lay pastoral workers. Drawing on insights from psychotherapy, psychiatry, and contemporary counselling techniques and styles, the author offers an informative guide to essential counselling skills in a variety of pastoral situations - with individuals, couples and groups. Attending, listening, empathising, asking questions, confrontation, assessment, and knowing when to refer to a specialist are some of the areas explored. It contains case studies across a wide range of human experience - grief, depression, marital conflict, and self-esteem. Dr Ian Harrison, a consultant psychiatrist, contributes a supplement on the complementary role of psychiatric medicine in Christian pastoral care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0551029129
• ISBN 13: 9780551029125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224